Common-Riding

Noun

1. Alternative form of common riding.
   • Mr. Scott, who was present at the Common-Riding this year, left for Boston, which had become his adopted home, by the steamer Celtic little more than a fortnight ago, accompanied by Mrs. Scott and his son, Mr. James...
   • The said William Aitken, being of new solemnly sworn, &c., depones he is a Burgess of Hawick, and had the property of a house which he now liferents, the fee being disponed to his son-in-law, Bailie Robert Scot, for the...
   • The flag of the town, an old and battered pennon, has recently been replaced by a new one, which is carried in the Common-Riding. - 2014, Peter Hempson Ditchfield, Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time, page 70: